Margaret “Molly” Moye, MD, is a Board-certified Dermatologist and Fellowship-trained Mohs micrographic skin cancer surgeon. She joined Forefront Dermatology’s Louisville, Kentucky office in 2016. My Job Search as a Resident/Fellow I graduated from fellowship in 2016, so my job search began
“As private equity firms make it rain on healthcare companies, some in the industry worry that patients will pay the price.” So begins a recent Modern Healthcare article on private equity’s entry into areas including Ophthalmology, physician staffing services, and
PE-backed group practices are hiring nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs)—but so is every other type of dermatological practice. According to the 2018 American Academy of Dermatology Association Member Profile, nearly half of all Dermatologists employ a PA or
This myth is more a trick of perspective than anything else. If you asked the owner of a Dermatology practice “what’s the biggest threat to your practice?” you’d likely hear about the stress of working two full-time, high pressure jobs—being
One myth around private equity in Dermatology is that the PE backers will want to tell Dermatologists how to practice medicine—which services they should push, which equipment they can use, how many PAs or NPs they should employ. For the
